Known as C-32, the Canadian "Cracking Down on Tobacco Marketing Aimed at Youth Act" seeks to ban the sale and production of flavored cigarettes and cigars.

The Canadian bill's supporters say that C-32 would prevent the production of candy or fruit-flavored mini-cigars or cigarillos that are targeted at children. During 2007, about 25 percent of that country's 15to 17-year-olds smoked one of these mini-cigars, said Colin Carrie, parliamentary secretary for Canada's minister of health.

"By amending the Tobacco Act [with C-32] we can help prevent more young people from experimenting with an addictive substance," Carrie said before the bill passed in the House of Commons on June 17. The legislation is now making its way through the Canadian Senate.